Jessie West Oral History Interview

Interviewee

• Jessie West

Files

Interviewer

Otis R. Anthony

Publication Date

3-11-2009

Date

1978-09-13

Abstract

Jessie West describes how the Depression affected African Americans in Tampa. She also discusses living conditions in Quincy, Florida during the 1910s, and describes a lynching that took place there between 1917 and 1918.

Keywords

African Americans, Great Depression (1929), Lynching

Extent

00:15:15; 5 page transcript

Subject: geographic

Hillsborough County (Fla.); Gadsden County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.); Quincy (Fla.)

Language

English

Digital Date

2009

Type

Oral History

Media Type

Oral histories

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

A31-00053

Recommended Citation

West, Jessie, "Jessie West Oral History Interview" (2009). Otis R. Anthony African Americans in Florida Oral History Project. 37.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/otis_anthony_ohp/37